FISHER, Sir James Hurtle (son of James Fisher of London, architect). b. 1790; attorney in partnership with Thomas Rhodes in Davies st. Cavendish sq. London 1811–32; resident comr. for crown lands in South Australia 1836; the first mayor of Adelaide 1840 and 4 times afterwards; member for West Adelaide 1853–55; speaker of the legislative council 1855–56; first pres. of the legislative council 1856–65 when he retired from office and parliament; knighted by patent 24 May 1860. d. Adelaide 28 Jany. 1875.
FISHER, Sir John William (son of Peter Fisher of Perth). b. London 30 Jany. 1787; M.R.C.S. 1809, F.R.C.S. 1836, member of council 1843; surgeon to Bow st. patrol 1821; surgeon-in-chief to Metropolitan police 1829–65; M.D. Erlangen 1841; knighted at Osborne 2 Sep. 1858. d. 33 Park lane, London 22 March 1876. Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. viii, 173–4 (1876); I.L.N. lxviii, 335, 527 (1876).
FISHER, Robert Alexander. Barrister M.T. 25 Jany. 1850; deputy judge of City of London court; secretary of the Judicature commission 25 Nov. 1872 to Sep. 1874 when last report was issued; judge of county courts (circuit 54) Somerset 1 Oct. 1874 to death; author of Digest of the reported decisions of the courts of common law, bankruptcy, probate, admiralty and divorce from 1756, 5 vols. 1870, new ed. by J. Mews 7 vols. 1884 and other books. d. Glanmorfa, Clifton 30 Sep. 1879.
FISHER, Walter David (3 son of David Fisher 1816–87). b. Norwich 1845; first appeared on stage at T.R. Glasgow 1852; played in the provinces; acted at Athenée theatre in Paris 1873; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre as Moses in The school for scandal, July 1875; acted Potain in Cora at Globe theatre March 1877; played with Doyly Carte’s provincial company 1880; acted in Germany with the Gilbert and Sullivan répertoire company 1887; played Shadbolt in The Yeomen of the Guard at Court theatre, Liverpool 15 May 1889. d. 15 Seymour st. Liverpool 25 May 1889.
FISHER, William (2 son of John Fisher of Yarmouth, Norfolk). b. 18 Nov. 1780; midshipman R.N. 18 Aug. 1795; surveyed the Mozambique channel 1809–10; employed in suppression of slave trade on coast of Guinea 1816–17; commanded Asia in Mediterranean 1836–41; received Turkish gold medal; good service pension awarded him 1 July 1842; R.A. 2 Dec. 1847; suggested to Admiralty plan of watering ships generally adopted; author of The Petrel, or love on the ocean 1850; Ralph Rutherford, a nautical romance 1851. d. 38 Blandford sq. London 30 Sep. 1852.
FISHER, William Richard (2 son of John Goate Fisher of Great Yarmouth). b. 14 Aug. 1824; barrister L.I. 13 June 1851; author of The law of mortgage as applied to the redemption, foreclosure and sale in equity of incumbered property 1856, 4 ed. 1884; The forest of Essex, its history, laws, administration and ancient customs 1887. d. Guildford, Surrey 17 Nov. 1888.
FISHER, William Webster. b. Westmoreland 1798; studied medicine at Montpellier, M.D. 1825; of Trin. coll. Cam. 1827, of Downing coll., fellow to 1841; Downing professor of medicine 1841 to death; lectured 1841–68; M.B. Cam. 1834, M.D. 1841; univ. examiner of students in medicine and member of univ. board of medical studies; physician to Addenbrooke hospital; had large private practice at Cam.; fellow of Cambridge Philos. Soc. and contributed to its Transactions. d. East lodge, Downing coll. 4 Oct. 1874 in 76 year. Brit. Med. Journ. 10 Oct. 1874, 481.
FISK, William (son of a farmer at Can hall, Essex). b. Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex 1796; educ. Colchester; in mercantile house in London 1815–25; commenced historical compositions 1834 in which he accurately reproduced portraits and costumes, among these were Lady Jane Grey in the Tower 1834, Leonardo da Vinci expiring in the arms of Francis i. 1838, Conspiracy of the Pazzi, attempt to assassinate Lorenzo de Medici 1839 for which in 1840 was awarded gold medal of Manchester Institution; painted 5 pictures connected with reign of Charles i. 1840–44; exhibited 25 paintings at R.A., 17 at B.I. and 45 at Suffolk st. 1818–48. d. Danbury, Essex 8 Nov. 1872.
FISK, William Henry (son of the preceding). b. 1827; pupil of his father and student of R. Acad.; anatomical draughtsman to royal coll. of Surgeons; teacher of drawing and painting at Univ. coll. sch. London; made a series of drawing of trees for the queen; lectured on art in London and the provinces; exhibited 11 landscapes at R.A., 7 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1846–73. d. Hampstead 13 Nov. 1884.
FISKEN, Rev. William. b. Gelleyburn farm near Crieff, Perthshire; taught a school at Alyth; minister at Stamfordham near Newcastle 1847 to death; governor and sec. of endowed schools at Stamfordham; with his brother Thomas invented the steam plough; invented a potato-sowing machine, a safety steam boiler, a propeller, apparatus for heating churches and the steam tackle for the steam plough July 1855; author of The cheapest system of steam cultivation and steam cartage; On the comparative methods of steam tackle. d. Stamfordham manse 28 Dec. 1883 aged upwards of 70.